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Author: Chris Mahon

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Chris Mahon

Chris Mahon

Chris Mahon is a fantasy writer, speaker, and essayist living in Brooklyn, New York. His non-fiction work has appeared in Clarkesworld Magazine, SyFy WIRE, Outer Places, The Portalist, and others. He's also spoken at New York Comic-Con, Columbia University, and the Glasgow International Fantasy Convention. In his free time he runs The Occult Triangle Lab, a blog on trigonometry, fantasy, and ungodly amounts of milk. You can contact him on Twitter @DeadmanMu or at christophmahon [at] gmail [dot] com.

  • Warhammer
    By Chris Mahon
    November 9, 2019
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    Getting Into Warhammer 40K, Part 4: How to Build an Army (and Fight!)

    This is gonna be a quick-and-dirty intro to how to play Warhammer 40K, which should hopefully be enough of a primer to help you understand what ...
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    Tales from the TabletopWarhammer
    By Chris Mahon
    March 6, 2019
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    Getting Into Warhammer 40K, Part 3: Choosing Your Allies

    Aaaand we’re back with more Warhammer! Be sure to check out Part 1 and Part 2 to get the full picture. Some Warhammer factions play nice ...
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    Video GamesWriting
    By Chris Mahon
    October 25, 2018
    2498
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    Creating Complex Characters: A ‘Mass Effect 2’ Case Study

    As a writer, there are some shows and books I find myself going back to again and again just so I can remind myself what exciting, ...
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    Tales from the Tabletop
    By Chris Mahon
    August 17, 2018
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    D&D 3.5: Wicker the Necromancer Learns About Love

    After failing to hold a city for ransom with anthrax zombies (you can read that saga here), both my D&D character Wicker and I were in a ...
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  • FantasyListsWriting
    By Chris Mahon
    July 30, 2018
    1402
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    Words to Live By: Best Writing Advice from J.R.R. Tolkien, Philip K. Dick, and Franz Kafka

    Here are some more of my favorite quotes on writing* to follow up on the previous words of wisdom from Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman, and Alan ...
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  • Four-Part FictionOriginal Fiction
    By Chris Mahon
    July 30, 2018
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    The Crownless King (Part Four) by Chris Mahon

    Part One Part Two Part Three Over the next few days, Samal finished tracing the star map and continued teaching Iz about the workings of the ...
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  • Four-Part FictionOriginal Fiction
    By Chris Mahon
    July 23, 2018
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    The Crownless King (Part Three) by Chris Mahon

    Part One Part Two Iz shuddered all the way down her body, like a puppet whose strings were being jerked. Then she crawled forward with the ...
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  • FantasyListsWriting
    By Chris Mahon
    July 19, 2018
    2387
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    Words to Live By: Best Writing Advice from Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, and Alan Watts

    A couple years ago, I bought a big cork board to hang over my writing desk. Since then, I’ve been pinning quotes to it to keep ...
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  • Four-Part FictionOriginal Fiction
    By Chris Mahon
    July 16, 2018
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    The Crownless King (Part Two) by Chris Mahon

    Read Part One Here When Iz went to sleep in her bundle of canvas and fur, her hand wrapped in bandages, Samal was still awake at ...
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  • Four-Part FictionOriginal Fiction
    By Chris Mahon
    July 9, 2018
    1372
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    The Crownless King (Part One) by Chris Mahon

    “Hand closed tight? If there’s too much air in your fist, it’ll blow your hand off.” “I think it’s tight.” “All right, now press your lips ...
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